Job 10 Cross References - Thomson

¹ Weary of my life I would pour forth with groans my words before him: oppressed as I am I would speak in the bitterness of my soul, ² and say to the Lord, Teach me not to be impious. Now, for what cause hast thou thus condemned me? ³ Is it agreeable to thee that I should commit iniquity; seeing thou hast rejected the works of thy hands; and favoured the counsel of the wicked? ⁴ As a mortal looketh dost thou look down? Or as a man looketh wilt thou behold? ⁵ Are thy days as the days of a mortal; or thy years, the years of a man; ⁶ that thou hast sought out mine iniquity, and diligently traced my sins? ⁷ For thou knowest that I am not impious: but who can deliver out of thy hands? ⁸ Thy hands have fashioned me and made me. After that thou hast changed thy mind and smitten me. ⁹ Remember that thou hast made me of clay, and art turning me again into mould. ¹⁰ Hast thou not churned me as milk, and curdled me as cheese; ¹¹ and clothed me with skin and flesh; and fenced me with bones and sinews, ¹² and granted me life and favour, and by thy visitation preserved my spirit? ¹³ As thou hast these things in thyself; I know that thou canst do all things, and that with thee nothing is impossible. ¹⁴ If I indeed have sinned inadvertently, thou hast me in custody, and hast not acquitted me of transgression. ¹⁵ If I indeed am impious, Woe is me. ¹⁶ And if I be righteous, I cannot hold up my head, for I am full of ignominy. For I am hunted as a lion for slaughter. For turning again furiously thou destroyest me. ¹⁷ Renewing the examination against me, thou hast exercised against me great wrath; and hast brought against me tortures. ¹⁸ Why then didst thou bring me forth from the womb? And why did I not die without an eye seeing me; ¹⁹ and become as if I never had existed? Why was I not carried from the womb to the grave? ²⁰ Is not the term of my life of short duration? permit me to enjoy a little repose: ²¹ before I go, whence I shall not return; ²² to a land dark and gloomy; to a land of everlasting darkness; where there is no light; no seeing the life of mortals.

¹⁵ If thou deal thus with me, kill me outright, if I have found favour in thy sight, that I may not see my wretchedness.

⁴ and he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness; and came and sat down under a juniper tree, and intreated that he might die, and said, Let the present suffice. Take, I beseech thee, O Lord, my life from me; for I am not better than my fathers

²⁰ For why is light given to them in misery; or life to souls distressed with sorrow, ²¹ who long for death but find it not; though they dig for it as for treasures; ²² and would rejoice exceedingly if they should chance to find it. ²³ For God hath shut up death from a man; to whom it would have been a repose.

¹⁵ and that they may perish in battle, and the weak escape from the hand of the mighty. ¹⁶ And that the feeble may have hope, and the mouth of the wicked be stopped.

²⁰ In famine he will deliver thee from death, and in battle save thee from the edge of the sword.

² that some person would weigh my passion: and poise in a balance against it, my calamities. ³ But these would outweigh the sand of the sea, though you seem to think my words too vehement: ⁴ for the arrows of the Lord are in my body, the fury of which drinketh up my blood: when I attempt to speak they pierce me.

⁸ O that he would grant! that my request might be complied with! that the Lord would grant me what I long for! ⁹ Let the Lord, having begun, wound me, but not utterly destroy me.

²⁶ Your reproof can neither stop my speaking, nor can I bear the tone of your oration:

¹¹ For this cause then I will not refrain my mouth: I will speak though I am in anguish: though distressed, I will unfold the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁶ For I am not to live forever, that I should bear patiently. Withdraw from me; for my life is vanity.

²¹ And if I am blameless, shall I go away crouching? For if I have acted wickedly, I am not conscious to myself: Nevertheless my life is taken away.

¹⁵ If I indeed am impious, Woe is me. ¹⁶ And if I be righteous, I cannot hold up my head, for I am full of ignominy. For I am hunted as a lion for slaughter. For turning again furiously thou destroyest me.

¹³ O! that thou hadst kept me in the mansion of the dead; and hid me till thine indignation should cease: and that thou wouldst set me a time when thou wouldst remember me;

⁶ For if I speak shall I not bemoan the wound? And if I hold my peace, shall I be any the less wounded? ⁷ But now when he hath made me a poor rotten fool; ⁸ thou indeed hast fallen upon me. My lie is become a witness, and hath risen up against me; it hath answered me to my face. ⁹ When in his wrath he threw me down and gnashed his teeth at me; the darts of his executioners fell upon me. ¹⁰ When with the darts of his eyes he had transfixed me; with his spear had brought me on my knees: they with one consent rushed upon me. ¹¹ The Lord hath indeed delivered me up to the unrighteous; and turned me over to the ungodly. ¹² When I was at peace he broke me up; taking me by the hair he shook me; he set me up as a mark. ¹³ They surrounded me with javelins, darting them into my reins; without mercy they poured my gall on the ground. ¹⁴ They shot me, one deadly wound on another; they ran against me with all their might. ¹⁵ They sewed sackcloth on my skin: and my strength was extinguished in the dust. ¹⁶ My belly was burned up with wailing; and on mine eyelids were the shades of death:

⁴ Take it for granted that I have erred [though my error remaineth with myself] in speaking words which I ought not: and that my words are erroneous and unseasonable: but granted also,

² hear, hear my words. Can I not have this consolation from you? ³ Bear with me, and when I speak do not deride me. ⁴ What! is my pleading with man? Or, why shall I not be inflamed with indignation?

³ Because I kept silence, my bones were consumed; by reason of my crying all the live long day. ⁴ Because day and night thy hand was heavy on me, I was reduced to misery by a piercing thorn. ⁵ I acknowledged my sin and did not conceal mine iniquity. I said, Against myself I will confess mine iniquity to the Lord, thereupon thou didst forgive the wickedness of my heart.

¹⁵ and taken from me the sorrow of my soul.

³ Now, therefore, Sovereign Lord, take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.

⁸ And when the sun rose God ordered a burning wind to spring up and the sun beat upon Jonas' head so that he became fainty and abandoned himself to despair and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

⁵ But rise thou betimes and supplicate the Lord Almighty. ⁶ If thou art pure and upright, he will hear thy prayer; and render to thee the reward of righteousness.

²⁹ Now since I am wicked, why have I not died?

³¹ Because one saith to the Almighty, "I have taken, I will not again take a pledge: ³² I will look beyond myself; do thou shew me: If I have done iniquity, I will do so no more."

¹ For the conclusion, among Hymns for the eighth day. A Psalm by David. O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath; nor chasten me in thine anger. ² Pity me, Lord, for I am weak. Heal me, Lord, for my bones are troubled. ³ My soul is troubled exceedingly: but Lord, for how long? ⁴ Return, Lord; deliver my soul: save me for thy mercy's sake.

⁷ Remember not the sins and follies of my youth; according to thy mercy remember me, Lord, for thy goodness sake.

¹ A Psalm for remembrance, respecting rest. Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath; nor chasten me in thine anger. ² For in me thy shafts are deeply fixed; and on me thou hast heavily laid thy hand. ³ There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; no rest to my bones, because of my sins. ⁴ Because mine iniquities mounted above my head; like a heavy burden they were heavy on me. ⁵ The Wounds, on account of my folly putrefied and became corrupt. ⁶ I was in misery and wholly bent down: all the longsome day I went mourning. ⁷ For my soul was filled with illusions; and there was no soundness in my flesh. ⁸ I was afflicted and exceedingly depressed: I roared because of the groans of my heart.

²¹ Do thou, Lord, Lord, deal with me for thy name's sake: for thy mercy is good. Deliver me,

²³ Try me, O God, and know my heart: examine me and know my ways; ²⁴ and see if there be in me any trace of iniquity; and lead me in an everlasting way.

² and enter not into judgment with thy servant; for in thy sight no man living can be justified.

⁴⁰ Our way hath been searched and tried; let us then return to the Lord. ⁴¹ Let us offer up our hearts on our hands to Him who is High in heaven. ⁴² We have sinned; we have been guilty of impiety; and thou hast not been appeased.

¹⁶ Our crown is fallen from our head; alas for us! for we have sinned. ¹⁷ Because of this, grief is come upon us; our heart is full of sorrow: because of this, our eyes are dim.

¹ There is then no condemnation now to them who are in Christ Jesus and who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit.

³¹ For if we distinguish ourselves, should we not be judged? ³² And being judged, we are corrected by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

²⁰ for the Lord will not cast off the innocent, nor from the ungodly accept a gift:

²² Say then, wrath destroyeth the great and powerful:

²⁴ for they have been delivered into the hands of the wicked. He covereth the faces of the judges of that wrath. If it is not he, who is it?

¹⁵ Then call and I will answer. But reject not the works of thy hands.

¹⁶ For their prosperity was by their own hands.

¹⁸ [He, who had indeed filled their houses with good things, though the counsel of the wicked is far from him.]

⁵ For Job hath said, "I am righteous: the Lord hath removed from me the trial; ⁶ and hath disappointed me of my trial. My wound is grievous without transgression." ⁷ What man is there like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water;

¹⁸ He is irreverent, who saith to a king, Thou transgressest: to princes, you are acting impiously. ¹⁹ Who hath no respect for the person of an honourable man; nor knoweth how to honour nobles by respecting their persons."

⁷ He will not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but will seat them at last with kings on a throne and they shall be exalted. ⁸ When they shall be bound with fetters or held with cords of affliction, ⁹ he will shew them their works and their transgressions, that they bear;

¹⁷ the overflow of that from underneath hath deceived thee; and thy table which was full of fatness hath fallen: yet the cause of the righteous shall not fail. ¹⁸ But there shall be wrath against the ungodly, on account of the wicked bribes which they received for injustice.

² 1 Doth he decline a trial with the Almighty? Surely he who commenceth a suit against God, should support it.

⁸ Decline not the trial with Me. Dost thou think that I have spoken to thee for any other purpose, but that thou mayst appear justified?

³³ For the Lord hath hearkened to the needy, and hath not despised his prisoners.

⁸ Thou, Lord wilt retribute for me. Lord, thy mercy endureth forever; overlook not the works of thy hands.

⁸ But now, Lord, thou art our father. Though we are clay, we are all the works of thy hands:

¹ [p] Righteous as thou art, O Lord, can I defend a cause against thee? but let me speak to thee in respect to judgments. Why is the way of wicked men prosperous? Why are they happy who have been all guilty of perfidy? ² Thou hast planted them and they have taken root, they have generated and produced fruit. Thou art near in their mouth, but far from their reins. ³ But thou, Lord, knowest me. Thou hast tried my heart before thee. Prepare them for the day of their slaughter.

² against me. He hath seized me and dragged me into darkness and there is no light. ³ But still he turned his hand against me all the day long. ⁴ He hath made my flesh and my skin old; he hath broken my bones. ⁵ He built up against me and encompassed my head and afflicted it with pain: ⁶ in dark mansions he placed me like the dead of old. ⁷ He built up against me so that I cannot get out. He made my chain heavy. ⁸ Though I scream and cry, he shut out my prayer. ⁹ He walled up my ways; he blocked up my paths; ¹⁰ he terrified me. He was as a bear lying in wait; to me he was like a lion in secret coverts. ¹¹ He pursued me when I fled and stopped me. He removed me quite out of sight. ¹² He bent his bow and set me up as a mark for his arrow. ¹³ He poured into my reins the darts of his quiver. ¹⁴ I became a subject of laughter to all my people; their song all the day long. ¹⁵ He glutted me with worm wood; he gave me a large draught of gall, ¹⁶ and broke my teeth with gravel. He drenched me with ashes. ¹⁷ He removed my soul far from peace. I forgot prosperity; ¹⁸ so my strength was destroyed and the hope which I had from the Lord.

¹⁹ Let them therefore who suffer according to the will of God, commit their souls to him in well doing, as to a faithful creator.

⁷ But the Lord said to Samuel, Look not on his countenance, nor the height of his stature, for I have rejected him: for God looketh not superficially as man looketh; for man looketh at the outward appearance, but God will look to the heart.

³² For thou art not a man as I am, with whom I can contend; that we may come together to a trial.

¹⁵ Whereupon he said to them, You are they who justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts. Because that which is high among men, is an abomination in the sight of God,

¹⁴ and as for his head, the hairs like wool were glittering white as snow, and his eyes were like a flame of fire;

²⁶ Behold the Almighty is multifarious in operations beyond our comprehension. The number of his years are indeed infinite

² Before the mountains were brought forth; or the earth or the world was formed: even from everlasting to everlasting thou existest. ³ Wilt thou turn man away to despondency; when thou hast said, Return ye sons of men? ⁴ Since in thy sight a thousand years are but as yesterday which is past; or as a watch in the night:

¹² But thou, Lord, endurest forever; and the memorial of thee to all generations.

²⁴ call me not away in the midst of them; thy years are throughout all generations. ²⁵ Thou Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foundations of the earth; and the heavens are the work of thy hands. ²⁶ They shall perish; but thou wilt endure: they shall all wax old like a garment; and like a mantle thou wilt fold them up and they shall be changed: ²⁷ but as for thee, thou art the same; and thy years shall have no end.

¹² And like a mantle thou wilt fold them up and they shall be changed :But as for thee, thou art the same And thy years shall have no end".

⁸ Now let not this one thing, my beloved, escape you, That with the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.

¹⁴ If I indeed have sinned inadvertently, thou hast me in custody, and hast not acquitted me of transgression. ¹⁵ If I indeed am impious, Woe is me. ¹⁶ And if I be righteous, I cannot hold up my head, for I am full of ignominy. For I am hunted as a lion for slaughter. For turning again furiously thou destroyest me. ¹⁷ Renewing the examination against me, thou hast exercised against me great wrath; and hast brought against me tortures.

¹⁶ Now thou hast numbered up my devices, and not one of my inadvertencies could escape thee.

¹⁵ Break the arm of the sinful and malicious man. Let his sin be sought out till no more can be found.

²¹ for he knoweth the secrets of the heart?

³⁴ And on thy hands hath been found the blood of innocent souls. These I did not find in breaches into houses, but in every grove of oaks.

¹² Therefore it shall come to pass in that day, that I will search Jerusalem with a lamp, and execute vengeance on the men who are despisers; upon their stores. And as for them who say in their hearts, "The Lord will neither do good nor harm, "

²⁴ But Jesus did not trust himself to them, because he knew all men. ²⁵ And because he had no need that any one should testify of man, for he himself knew what was in man;

⁵ So pass no judgment prematurely, until the Lord come, who will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and expose to view the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise for every one will be from God.

³⁹ See! See! that I am the Self existent, And that there is no Clod besides me; I kill, and I can cause to live, I can smite and I can heal, And none can rescue out of my hand:

¹⁰ For he already knoweth my way and hath tried me like gold.

¹³ But if he hath judged thus, who can gainsay him? For he hath done what was his pleasure. ¹⁴ For this cause my shuddering is at him; and on being chastened, I thought of him.

⁶ For I have been weighed in a just balance; and the Lord knoweth mine integrity.

¹⁴ what shall I do when the Lord maketh inquest? And when he visiteth, what answer shall I make?

³⁵ who could have heard me with patience?] And if I had not feared the hand of the Lord

⁷ Now after the Lord had spoken all these things to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz, the Thaimanite, Thou hast sinned and thy two friends. For you have not spoken any thing true before me, as my servant Job hath.

⁶ For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: and the way of the ungodly shall perish.

³ Lord, my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands:

⁸ The Lord is the judge of the tribes; judge me, Lord, according to my righteousness: and according to mine innocence be for me. ⁹ Let the wickedness of sinners be brought to an end. Thou wilt indeed direct the righteous: thou art the God who searcheth hearts and reins.

³ Thou hast proved my heart: thou hast watched me by night: thou hast tried me: and in me there was found no injustice.

¹ By David. Judge me, Lord, for I have walked in mine integrity; and trusting in the Lord I should not be shaken. ² Examine me, Lord, and prove me: try my reins and my heart. ³ Because thy mercy is before mine eyes; and I have delighted in thy truth: ⁴ I did not sit with the council of vanity; nor can I go with them who transgress: ⁵ I hated the assembly of evil doers; and with the ungodly I cannot sit.

²² Now then, consider this, ye who forget God; lest he tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver.

¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm by David. LORD, thou hast proved me and known me. ² Thou knowest my sitting down and my rising up. Thou from afar understandest my thoughts.

²¹ Have I not, Lord, hated them who hate thee; and been melted for them who are thine enemies! ²² With perfect hatred I have hated them; I have accounted them mine enemies.

¹⁵ Now therefore are you ready, when you hear the sound of the trumpet and syrinx and of the kithara and sambuk and of the psaltery and symphony and all kinds of musical instruments, to fall prostrate and worship the golden image which I have made? For if you do not worship you shall, that very hour, be cast into the furnace of fire, which is heated. And what god is there who can deliver you out of my hands?

¹⁰ and I will now disclose her impurity before her lovers; and none shall deliver her out of my hand.

²⁸ and I give them everlasting life; and they shall never perish, nor shall any one wrest them out of my hand. ²⁹ My father who gave them to me, is greater than all, and none is able to wrest them out of my father's hand. ³⁰ I and my father are one.

¹⁷ He saith to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved that he said to him, the third time, "Lovest thou me," and he said to him, Lord thou knowest all things. Thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith to him, Feed my sheep.

¹² For this is the matter of our boasting; the testimony of our conscience, that with simplicity and godly sincerity, not with carnal wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and more especially towards you.

¹⁰ You are witnesses, and God is witness, how holy, how just, how irreproachable our behaviour was to you who believed

⁶ God was grieved that he had made man on the earth. ⁷ And God came to a determination and said, "I will blot out from the face of this earth the man I have made, both man and beast; both reptiles and birds of the air. For I am grieved that I made them.

³ Is it agreeable to thee that I should commit iniquity; seeing thou hast rejected the works of thy hands; and favoured the counsel of the wicked?

⁷³ JOD. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: instruct me that I may learn thy commandments.

⁷ all that are called by my name." For I have prepared him for my glory, I have fashioned him and made him,

³ So I went down to the house of the potter; and behold he was making a piece of work on stones; ⁴ and the vessel, which he was fashioning with his hands, fell, whereupon he again made it a vessel of another sort as it seemed good to him to make it. ⁵ Then a word of the Lord came to me saying, ⁶ Cannot I do with you, house of Israel, as this potter? Behold you are in my hands like the clay of the potter. ⁷ When I speak to a nation or kingdom; that I will remove and destroy them; ⁸ if that nation turn from all their evils, I will relent in respect to the evils which I was resolving to bring on them. ⁹ And when I speak to a nation and kingdom that I will build up and replant: ¹⁰ If they do evil in my sight so as not to hearken to my voice, I indeed will alter my mind in respect to the good things which I spoke of doing for them.

⁷ then God formed the man, dust from the earth, and breathed upon his face a breath of life, and the man became a living soul.

¹⁹ By the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat thy bread until thou return into the earth out of which thou wast taken; for earth thou art and to earth thou shalt return."

⁷ Remember therefore that my life is but a breath; and that mine eyes shall never return again to see good.

¹⁴ I have called on death to be my father; and on corruption to be my sister and mother.

¹⁵ My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my palate; thou hast indeed brought me to the dust of death.

⁶ Lord, remember thy compassion and thy tender mercies; for they are from everlasting. ⁷ Remember not the sins and follies of my youth; according to thy mercy remember me, Lord, for thy goodness sake.

¹⁸ Look on my humiliation and my trouble and for give all my sins.

⁴⁷ Remember what my being is. Hast thou created all the sons of men in vain?

³ Wilt thou turn man away to despondency; when thou hast said, Return ye sons of men?

⁴ Remember us, Lord, affectionately as thy people, visit us with thy salvation;

⁷ and dust return to dust as it was, and the spirit return to God who gave it;

⁹ Is any thing endowed with excellence? I fashioned it like the clay of a potter. Will the ploughman plough the ground all the day long? Will the clay say to the potter, "What art thou making?" Or the work to the Workman, "Thou hast not hands"" Will the thing formed reply against him who formed it?

⁶ Cannot I do with you, house of Israel, as this potter? Behold you are in my hands like the clay of the potter.

²¹ Hath not the potter power over the clay to make, out of the same lump, one vessel for honour, and another for dishonour?

¹⁴ I will adore thee, for thou art awfully wonderful. Thy works are wonderful; as my soul well knoweth. ¹⁵ From thee was not concealed this bone of mine; which thou in secret didst fashion. ¹⁶ When my substance was in the lowest parts of the earth; thine eyes beheld the unwrought part of me. When on thy book all shall be enrolled; they will day by day be fashioned.

¹⁷ He hath raised his tail like a cypress, and his sinews are plaited together. ¹⁸ His ribs are ribs of brass, and his back bone is molten iron;

⁴ Then he said to me, Prophesy concerning these bones and say to them, Ye bones which are dry, hear a word of the Lord, ⁵ Thus saith the Lord to these bones, Behold I will bring upon you a breath of life; ⁶ and upon you I will lay sinews; and I will bring flesh on you and stretch skin over you, and put my breath in you and you shall live: and you shall know, that I am the Lord. ⁷ So I prophesied as he commanded me, and it came to pass that, when I had prophesied, behold there was a tremulous motion and it brought the bones together, every one to its proper place. ⁸ And I beheld and lo! sinews and flesh were grown upon them, and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.

² For in this we groan, wishing earnestly to clothe ourselves with that house of ours; that heavenly habitation; ³ for having indeed that on, we shall not be found naked.

¹⁶ from whom the whole body being fitly framed together and cemented, provision is made by means of the supply of every joint, according to the proportionate operative power of every part, for an increase of the body; for building itself up in love.

¹⁹ since thy servant hath found favour in thy sight and thou hast magnified thy kindness in what thou dost for me to save my life. I cannot escape to the mountains. Peradventure the calamity may overtake me and I shall die.

⁴ It is the divine spirit, which made me, even the inspiration of the Almighty, which teacheth me.

²⁵ Therefore I say to you, Be not anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink; nor about your body, what you shall wear. Is not life a greater gift than food; and the body, than raiment?

²⁵ nor is he served by the hands of men, as needing any thing. He is the giver of life and breath, and of all things, to all,

²⁸ For in him we live and are moved and exist; as some also of your own poets have said, "For we his offspring are."

⁹ When he wrought on my left, I comprehended not; he may encompass my right and I not see.

¹³ But if he hath judged thus, who can gainsay him? For he hath done what was his pleasure.

⁶ Because the man's determination may be much against him; ⁷ because none knoweth what may happen, who can tell him what may come to pass?

⁷ It was I who provided light and made darkness; who make peace and create evils: I the Lord God am he who doth all these things.

¹⁵ For thou art God and we knew it. The God of Israel is a Saviour:

⁹ and remember the things of old, that I am God and there is none besides me, ¹⁰ who can declare events before they happen, as if they were already accomplished. When I have spoken, all my counsel shall stand; and all that I have determined, I will effect. ¹¹ Calling from the east a winged fowl, even from a far distant land, for purposes which I have resolved on, I have spoken and brought, I have created and made, I have brought it and made its way prosperous.

³⁷ [a] Who ever enjoined thus; when it hath happened, hath not the Lord ordered it?

³³ O the depth of the riches, and of the wisdom, and of the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways not to be traced out!

¹¹ according to the predisposition of the ages which he made by Christ Jesus our Lord;

⁷ keeping kindness and mercy for thousands, taking away transgressions, iniquities and sins, will by no means clear the guilty, when he bringeth the transgressions of fathers on children and children s children to the third and fourth generation.

¹⁸ "The Lord is long suffering, abundant in mercy and true, taking away iniquities, transgressions and sins; and, when he will not by purification clear the guilty, retributing the sins of fathers on children to the third and fourth generation,"

²¹ Why hast thou not made an oblivion of my transgression; or a purification for my sin? Now therefore let me depart into the earth: and when thou risest in the morning, I am no more.

²⁸ I shudder in all my limbs; for I know that thou wilt not let me alone though innocent.

²⁶ For thou hast written evil things against me; and laid to my charge the inadvertencies of youth; ²⁷ and put my feet in a clog and watched all my doings; and hast tracked the soles of my feet.

³ Shouldst thou, Lord, mark iniquities; Lord, who can subsist?

¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm by David. LORD, thou hast proved me and known me.

⁷ And the Lord said to Moses, I have indeed seen the affliction of my people in Egypt and have heard their cry on the account of their task masters; for I know their sorrow,

¹² If he dismiss who shall bring back? Or who shall say to him, What hast thou done?

¹⁵ [for if I be righteous will he not hearken to me; shall I not supplicate his decision?

²⁰ For if I am righteous shall my mouth be wicked? ²¹ And if I am blameless, shall I go away crouching? For if I have acted wickedly, I am not conscious to myself: Nevertheless my life is taken away.

⁷ For thou knowest that I am not impious: but who can deliver out of thy hands?

⁶ For at the bare recollection I shudder: and tortures rack my flesh.

¹⁵ For this cause I am to be awed at his presence; I am to meditate on and be in dread of him.

⁷ Should not mine enemies then be as the overthrow of the wicked? And they who rise up against me as the destruction of transgressors?

¹⁷ [17-20 A responsive Ode.] Let the sinners be turned back to the mansion of the dead; all the nations who forget God.

¹⁵³ RESH Behold my affliction, and deliver me; for I have not forgotten thy law.

¹¹ Alas for the wicked! according to the works of his hands evils shall befal him. my people!

⁵ Whereupon I said, Ah! Woe is me! [for I was confounded] for being a man, and having unclean lips; and dwelling among a people of unclean lips, I have seen with mine eyes the king the Lord of Hosts.

⁵ For it will meet them who practise righteousness, and they will remember their ways. Behold thou wast angry when we sinned; because of this we wandered ⁶ and became all of us as unclean, and all our righteousness was like a polluted rag; and for our iniquities we have fallen like leaves; so that the wind will sweep us away.

²⁰ Look, O Lord! because of my distress my bowels are troubled; and my heart within me is distracted, because I have grievously rebelled. Abroad the sword, and at home death have bereaved me of children.

¹ Remember, Lord, what hath befallen us: look down ² and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is transferred to strangers; our houses to foreigners. ³ We are become orphans. Our father is no more. Our mothers are like widows. ⁴ Our water we have drunk for money. Our wood came by barter on our shoulders. ⁵ We have been persecuted. We have laboured and have had no rest. ⁶ Egypt laid to a hand; Assyria, till they were satisfied. ⁷ Our fathers sinned; they are no more. We have borne their transgressions. ⁸ Slaves have got dominion over us; there is none to deliver us out of their hand. ⁹ At the peril of our lives we must gather in our corn, because of the sword of the desert. ¹⁰ Our skin is black as an oven. They are shrivelled up by storms of famine. ¹¹ Our wives are humbled in Sion; our virgins in the cities of Juda. ¹² Our chiefs were hanged up by their hands; our elders were held in no esteem. ¹³ Our warriors took up a lamentation; and our youths fainted under a club. ¹⁴ Our elders have ceased to attend at the gates, and our chosen men have ceased from their songs. ¹⁵ The joy of our heart is at an end; our dance is turned into mourning. ¹⁶ Our crown is fallen from our head; alas for us! for we have sinned. ¹⁷ Because of this, grief is come upon us; our heart is full of sorrow: because of this, our eyes are dim. ¹⁸ On mount Sion, because it is desolate, foxes have walked about. ¹⁹ But thou, Lord, wilt inhabit it forever: thy throne is for all generations. ²⁰ Why wilt thou utterly forget us? Wilt thou leave1 us for length of days? ²¹ Turn us to thee, Lord, and we shall be turned and renew our days as heretofore. Because thou wast cast off, thou hast cast us off; thou hast been provoked against us to a high degree.

¹⁸ And when you shall be converted, you shall see the difference between a righteous man and one who is unrighteous; and between him who serveth God and him who serveth not.

¹⁰ So when you have done all that you are commanded to do, say, We are servants who have conferred no favour; for we have only done what we were bound to do.

⁸ but for them who are contentious and disobedient to the truth and in subjection to unrighteousness, there will be indignation and wrath, ⁹ tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man who doth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek;

²⁹ If these men die the common death of all men; or if their visitation be according to the visitation of all men, the Lord hath not sent me: ³⁰ but if the Lord demonstrate by a miracle, and the earth opening its mouth, shall swallow up them and their households, and their tents, and all that belong to them; and they go down alive to the mansion of the dead; then you will know that these men have provoked the Lord.

⁵⁹ the Lord will make thy plagues, and the plagues of thy seed, wonderful beyond conception; he will make them great, and marvellous, and thy diseases sore, and lasting,

⁹ who doth great and unsearchable things; things glorious and wonderful, not to be numbered.

¹³ In that day I was delivered up until morning as to a lion. So did he break to pieces all my bones. For from day to night I was delivered up.

¹⁰ he terrified me. He was as a bear lying in wait; to me he was like a lion in secret coverts.

⁷ Therefore I will be to them as a tiger, even as a tigress in the way to the Assyrians. ⁸ I will meet them as a bear bereaved of her cubs, and rend the covering of their heart; and the young lions of the forest shall there devour them; and the beasts of the field shall tear them to pieces.

⁸ shall a lion roar and none be struck with dread? Hath the Lord spoken and will none prophesy?

²¹ I went out full; but the Lord hath brought me back empty. Why therefore do you call me Noemin, seeing the Lord hath brought me low, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?

⁸ thou indeed hast fallen upon me. My lie is become a witness, and hath risen up against me; it hath answered me to my face.

⁶ Know then, That it is the Lord who hath terrified me, and raised his bulwark against me. ⁷ Behold I laugh at reproach; I will not speak; I will cry aloud, There is no judgment. ⁸ I am fenced about and cannot get out. Before me he hath placed darkness. ⁹ He hath stripped me of my glory, and hath taken the crown from my head. ¹⁰ He broke me on every side and I fled: and he hath cut down my hope like a tree. ¹¹ When he exercised great wrath against me, and counted me as an enemy:

¹⁹ God who existeth before the ages will hear and afflict them. For there is no redemption for them. They indeed did not fear God:

¹¹ Moab enjoyed rest from his youth and trusted in his glory; he hath not been decanted from vessel to vessel; and into banishment he hath never gone. Therefore his taste remaineth in him and his flavour is not lost:

¹⁰ because it shut not up the door of my mother's womb: for that would have removed sorrow from mine eyes: ¹¹ for why did I not end my days in the womb? Or when I came forth from the belly why did I not instantly perish?

²⁰ But safety shall forsake them: for their hope shall be their destruction; and the eyes of the wicked shall melt away.

¹⁰ But when a man dieth he is gone: when a mortal falleth, he is no more.

¹⁰ [p] Woe is me, O my mother, what sort of a person hast thou born in me! a man of strife and contending with all this land! I have neither lent on usury: nor hath any one lent to me; yet my strength is spent among them who curse me.

¹⁴ Let the day be cursed in which I was born; the day in which my mother bore me; Let it not be mentioned with expressions of joy. ¹⁵ Let the man be cursed who brought tidings to my father saying, A male child is borne to thee making him glad. ¹⁶ Let that man be like the cities which the Lord overthrew in wrath and relented not, Let him hear a scream in the morning and the cry of Woe at noon-day, ¹⁷ because he did not kill me in the womb, and my mother was not made my grave, and her womb always with child." ¹⁸ To what purpose this? I came forth from the womb to see labours and sorrows, and my days have been spent in shame.

²⁴ The son of man goeth indeed as it is written of him. But alas for that man by whom the son of man is delivered up. Good were it for that man if he had never been born.

⁸ Like melting wax they shall be dissolved. A fire fell and they saw not the sun.

⁶ Though my life is swifter than a word; yet it is destroyed with vain hope. ⁷ Remember therefore that my life is but a breath; and that mine eyes shall never return again to see good.

¹⁶ For I am not to live forever, that I should bear patiently. Withdraw from me; for my life is vanity. ¹⁷ For what is man, that thou hast magnified him; or that thou payest attention to him? ¹⁸ Wilt thou keep a watch upon him till the morning. And judge him to the time of going to rest? ¹⁹ How long wilt thou not let me alone: nor let me go, that I may swallow my spittle? ²⁰ If I have sinned what can I do? thou who knowest the hearts of men; why hast thou set me up as thy mark to shoot at? Am I indeed a burden to thee? ²¹ Why hast thou not made an oblivion of my transgression; or a purification for my sin? Now therefore let me depart into the earth: and when thou risest in the morning, I am no more.

⁹ [for we are but of yesterday and know nothing; for our life on the earth is but a shadow]

²⁵ Now my days are swifter than a courier. They are gone without being perceived. ²⁶ Is there any track left by ships in their passage? Or of an eagle flying in pursuit of its prey?

²¹ withdraw thy hand from me: and let not the dread of thee overwhelm me with terror.

¹ He who is born of a woman waxeth old like a leathern bag: or like a garment which is moth eaten; for he is mortal, short lived and full of disquiet:

⁵ Behold thou hast made my days old; and mine existence is as nothing before thee. The universe; every man living is vanity.

¹³ O spare me that I may recover strength; before I go hence and be no more.

¹⁵ As for man, his days are like grass; like a flower of the field, so he may bloom. ¹⁶ Because a blast of wind passed over it, it is gone. It shall no more know its place.

²³ But now it is dead, why then should I fast? Can I bring it back again? I shall go to it; but it will never return to me.

¹⁴ Because we must surely die, and be like water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; and God can take away life when he is determined to remove an outcast from him;

⁵ but let darkness and the shadow of death cover it: upon it let there come a thick darkness. May the day be execrated!

¹³ I might now have lain still and been quiet; I might have gone to sleep and been at rest;

⁸ The eye of him who seeth me now shall not see me again. Thine eyes are upon me and I am gone. ⁹ I am like a cloud swept clean away from the sky. For when a man goeth down to the mansion of the dead; ¹⁰ he can never reascend again; he can never return again to his own house; nor shall his place know him any more.

¹⁰ But when a man dieth he is gone: when a mortal falleth, he is no more. ¹¹ For in a course of time a sea is spent; and a river when unsupplied is dried up: ¹² and man when composed in the grave cannot rise again; until the heaven be folded up; they shall not be awakened from their sleep. ¹³ O! that thou hadst kept me in the mansion of the dead; and hid me till thine indignation should cease: and that thou wouldst set me a time when thou wouldst remember me; ¹⁴ [for though a man die he may be revived, after finishing the days of this life of his,] I would wait patiently, until I come again into existence.

²² But my numbered days are come, and I must go the way, by which I cannot return.

⁴ For though I walk amidst the shades of death: I will fear no ills, because thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff have been my comfort.

⁶ they laid me in the lowest pit; in dark places and in the shade of death.

¹¹ Can any in the grave declare thy kindness?; Or thy faithfulness, in destruction? ¹² Can thy wonders be known in darkness; Or thy saving mercy, in the land of forgetfulness?

¹¹ I said, I shall no more see the salvation of God in the land of the living; I shall no more see the salvation of Israel on the earth; I shall behold man no more.

⁶ and did not say, Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt; who led us through the wilderness; through a boundless and untrodden land; through a land without water and without fruit; through a land which no man traversed, and where no man had a fixed abode.

²² nor can there be a place, where the workers of iniquity can be concealed."

¹⁷ Are the gates of Hades opened to thee through fear, and are the porters of Hades struck with awe at seeing thee?

¹⁹ Because thou hast humbled us in the place of affliction, and covered us with the shadow of death;

¹² Can thy wonders be known in darkness; Or thy saving mercy, in the land of forgetfulness?

¹⁶ Give glory to the Lord your God, before the darkness cometh, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains; when you will wait for light; and the shadow of death will be there; and they shall be placed in darkness.

²⁶ But besides all this, there is betwixt us and you, a huge gulf fixed; so that they, who would go hence to you, cannot. Neither can they who are there, cross over to us.